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Health management is part compliance, part early warning, and part long-term insight. Done well, it protects your herd, satisfies regulators, and generates the data to understand how health events are affecting your production outcomes.
Most producers need to keep accurate treatment records and manage the reporting obligations that come with moving stock. Sapien handles both without adding paperwork.
- Track every animal loaded for sale or transfer to comply with NLIS reporting requirements
- Record batch treatments (whole-mob applications) and spot treatments (individual animals) against each animal’s record
- Automatic alerts for booster due dates and withholding periods — nothing falls through the gaps
- Ensure full coverage for diseases without herd immunity effects — like botulism — by recording at the individual level even with incomplete musters
Not every health concern presents at the crush. Sapien lets you record observations in the paddock against individual animals, and those notes travel with the animal until they are acted on.
- Enter notes against animals that appear sick or injured while in the paddock
- The next time that animal enters the crush, Sapien triggers an alert — prompting you to stop, assess, and apply treatment or draft off for review
- Nothing is forgotten between paddock and yards, regardless of who is handling the muster
Most producers know health events cost money. Fewer can quantify exactly how much — or which interventions are paying off. Sapien dashboards connect health treatment records to production data across separate mobs to reveal the real picture.
- Analyse the impact of health treatments on conception rates, weaning rates, and early growth
- Identify which disease events — and which treatment responses — have the greatest effect on downstream production
- Compare treated and untreated mobs to understand the return on your health programme investment
- Build the evidence base for herd health planning and veterinary advisory decisions
I spend less time in the office and more time in the paddock, which is the heart of farming. There’s also less room for human error when all the data is captured in real time in the yards!